Year 7 Humanities

Semester Two Geography.

Introduction to the Spatial Concepts used in Geography.

Location, Scale, Distance, Distribution, Region, Spatial change over time, Movement, Spatial association and Spatial interaction
Students will use maps to apply these concepts.

Latitude and longitude/Time zones

Task to complete using atlas

Landscapes and landforms

The different types of landscapes and their distinctive landforms.
Tectonic Plates - What forces shape our landscape and create landforms.
Homework set. Pearson Text Read unit 1.1 The changing face of the earth and complete activities.

Coastal landscapes
Tsunami -Formation and effects of tsunamis. Case studies Boxing Day 2004 Japan 2011
The damage caused in Sumatra was catastrophic, but what would happen if a tsunami hit Melbourne? Would you be #ooded out or would you be safe?
The website

[[http://!ood."retree.net/?ll=-27.8390,138.1640&z=13&m=7]] allows you to change sea level on a map to see the effects.

Go to this website and locate Melbourne.
Change the flood level and investigate how much of the city would flood if a tsunami flowed into the city.
Which suburbs would be affected if the tsunami was 3m high?
At what level would the Bellarine Peninsula (near the entrance to Port Phillip Bay), become an island?
Why is it unlikely that a tsunami would affect Melbourne?


URBANISATION - World Cities.



Semester One History: Middle Ages

Equipment required.
One binder book
Text Pearson History/Geography 8
Netbook

Historical Knowledge and Skills.

Lesson one- Timelines

The Fall of the Roman Empire

Students will look at the causes behind the fall of the Roman Empire

Vikings. Key Question: Vikings a force for good or evil.

Students to use Primary and Secondary sources to form a point of view on the key question Vikings good or evil?

This task is due lesson one Term 2.

Daily life in the Middle Ages snapshot


How to become a knight or research a medieval woman.

Feudal Japan

Year 7 2014

SEMESTER TWO - GEOGRAPHY

Geographic concepts.

Introduction to basic mapping skills and locating features.

Task one: Australian Map - locating features on a map of Australia. This must include BOLTSS as learnt in class.
Due Date week 4 Term 3

Task two: Dreamtime Island Coordinates task:

TOPIC ONE: LIVEABILITY

What makes a place liveable?
Facilities and Services.
Living in remote communities: Indigenous communities, Mining towns.
Research task: comparing features of moist liveable and least liveable cities.



TOPIC TWO: WATER

Introduction Lesson 1- Natural Resources: Renewable, Non Renewable and Continuous Natural Resources.
Lesson 2 - The Water/Hydrological Cycle The forms of water. Water cycle terms and process.
Task Evaluate the 3 attached water cycle images.
Which image presents the most accurate, detailed information?
How trustworthy is the information presented in each image?
Don't forget to look carefully at who has produced the image. What might this tell us about the credibility and purpose of the image?
Now your turn to produce a carefully annotated water cycle. Using your glossary of terms and computer software such as SmartArt, construct a diagram of the main processes in the water cycle. On your illustration, label the main processes involved in the water cycle. Use colour coding to identify those processes that involve changes of form (ie gas to solid) and physical location of water.

SEMESTER ONE - HISTORY

The Ancient World index_10.jpg


History is divided into two strands:
  • Historical skills
  • Historical Knowledge and Understanding

Equipment

Binder book, netbook, pencil case and Jacaranda Atlas

Course Outline

1. Investigating the ancient past
2. An overview of the Ancient World
3. The Mediterranean World
Depth study Ancient Egypt
study Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece
4. The Asian World
Depth study Ancient China

Lesson 1 What is History? Why study History? Glossary
Lesson 2 Historical skills: Memory, primary and secondary sources, fact and opinion.
Lesson 3 Analysing Evidence. Students will analyse a collection of household garbage and form an hypothesis on the household. Assessment Task Analysing Household Garbage.
Lessons 4 and 5 Overview: Rise of Civilisations. Concepts examined. Out of Africa Theory. Cradle of Civilisation.
Lesson 6 Overview Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations: Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt.
Lessons 7 & 8 Egypt depth study. Introduction: The physical features of Egypt focussing on The Nile River and desert.
Inquiry question- The Nile River the life-blood of Ancient Egypt? Mind map task to summarise points covered.
Lessons 9 & 10 - Timeline of Ancient Egypt. Roles of key groups in Ancient Egyptian society - social pyramid, pharaohs
Homework task - 'Daily life in Egypt' task sheet. 7C due April 24th. Other classes to receive task early term 2.


Lessons 11 & 12 Research task. Preparation will include information on preparing a bibliography.

Each student will select a topic to research from the attached project sheet and prepare a PowerPoint, report, poster, model. This will be used to support their oral presentation to the class.

ANCIENT CHINA

Students are to find the answers to the questions on Ancient China.